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Rebecca
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Finally the new bulbs have arrived and more still due!Got my order from
John Scheepers last week and from Blooming Bulb just yesterday after a
short stop over in Georgia. A GF and I went together on an order to
save more money!
Potted so far are:
LEMON & LIME
EXOTIC STAR (after potting up a small pup on its own)
FAIRY TALE
EMERALD (Cybister Hyb)
LA PAZ (Cybister Hyb)
BRIGHT SPARKS
LEMON SORBET
FAN FARE
LITTLE STAR
Not yet potted but in storage are:
ALFRESCO
ZOMBIE
NYMPH (Also getting WHITE NYMPH)
RILONA
SUSAN, these last two are humongous "mother bulbs" of two of my favorite very old cultivars.
Coming in a couple of weeks:
LUNA
MATTERHORN
GIRAFFE
EVERGREEN
RIO NEGRO
CHICO (Last three are Cybister Hybs and Chico is a duplicate because I like it so much!)
My
orders were placed before I decided I really loved the Cybister
Hybrids, but from now on they will probably be all I will buy other
than a few specials, like H cybister! I also have a penchant for the
doubles, but I am quite picky about the ones I really like! had 5
doubles and have increased that to 8, but they can really take a lot of
space s the bloom stems get quite tall. I am liking the so called
"greens" more and more and I also like several of the H. papilio
hybrids.
I hope to begin sharing images of my collection as they
bloom, probably beginning with 'Exotic Star' although several of my
small bulbs and newer arrivals are ahead of it in development. So it
could be 'Lemon Sorbet' with it's deep green throat and cream to white
petals. At any rate I should have hippies blooming beginning in about a
month and continuing until early to mid-Spring.
My older bulbs include 5 of my Minerva X White Christmas seedling that I have kept; 4 double flowering varieties, one specie + 10 or so seedlings from an f3 generation cross of H. straitum, eight single flowering cltivars from small to huge flower size and 3 Cybister Hybrids + 60 or so seedlings from Chico X Ruby Meyers that I made last spring. (More red and longer, skinnier petals). I do have more than one bulb of spme varieties so I do actually have several more than just singles of each variety listed. Very few are box store purchases, but from various bulb growers. Blooming Bulb has the more affordable prices, though their bulbs are smaller, John Scheepers seems to have a very good variety and decent prices, bulbs are nicely sized and I love the way they pack their bulbs. Still awaiting delivery of an order from Royal Colors and that won't be here for another 3 weeks.
My bulbs of H papilio are growing new foliage now and I am hoping to see bloom this season, but then I always hope to see bloom, I just seldom do. There are three blooming sized bulbs in the pot and one small , new pup. I have done all I know to do and grown it the way it likes to be grown, darned thing just refuses to bloom. Some day I may get the "Improved" version, from someone who has grown them (mature pups) or who has proven seedling bloomers.
All of the seedlings, old and new, had grown very well this summer and the little ones are still growing well. I do need to "tent" their end of the shelves though to increase he warmth and humidity for them, but I really don't want to encourage too rapid of development as I don't want to have to divide and re-pot these until I can put them outside late next spring and give them more light that what they have been getting. I grow them in shade while the mature bulbs get at least a half day of sun. Some even get grown in the ground (those with issues). I want a raised bed just for the hippies summer home, but space is scarce for such things; the Daylilies still take preference.
Who else is buying or otherwise increasing their Amaryllis Collection? Anyone reducing theirs?
Rebecca
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I have several, mostly from the box stores but more doubles than any others. For some reason the stores seem to have gone back to two or three older varieties, nothing interesting.
I think I have a Scheepers catalog, but could you post links for your favorite sources?
Thanks.
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Links:
Blooming Bulb
Royal Colors
John Scheeper's Amaryllis
These are not in any particular order and there are other mail order sources, but these are the (perhaps) top three. Blooming Bulbs are smaller and cheaper, but very nice bulbs, Scheeper's have excellent pricing and the quality can not be beat. I am still waiting on my Royal Colors order to get here, but word is they are very good, though somewhat expensive; but they do have some things not offered elsewhere.
Have fun looking thorough these sites. Here's another one, just for fun: Amaryllis Bulb Company, pricing is rather high, qualoty is outstanding and customer service is excellent. I didn't order from them this year but got a very nice variety last season, very large bulb and the right one!
Gotta run!
Rebecca
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Rebecca... Looks like ya got soem really good one s there. Will be interestign to see once they grow and bloom for ya how clos e to the pics they are.
Soem of the new exotic lookign one s are simply gorgous. I a big double fan of the Amaryliss. You gonan grow them inside or outdoors?
Funyn how when I have doen them inside they bloom in winter but yet outsid e they bloom in the late spring.
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I have BLOOM!
BRIGHT SPARK, LEMON SORBET, FAN FARE, LITTLE STAR and NYMPH. LITTLE STAR is, by far, the tiniest Amaryllis I have ever grown or seen. The first scape isn't even 7" tall and the blooms (2 of 8 buds) is 2.75" across. Cute as a button and not much bigger than one either. Potted up 3 more of the "new" ones today.
Here come the images!
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Only thing new is a mis-labeled one. I had ordered 'La Paz', but this is what I (and several others) got:
Cloud be 'Red Pearl'
 Hum. . . . don't think I've shown this one either:  I have several more "fixin" to bloom and then even more new to the collection bulbs I haven't even potted up yet. So the show will go on to Spring! (With 45+ bulbs it takes that long when I only pot a few at a time and then the older bulbs don't even wake up until February or later!
Enjoy!
ZOMBIE should have a bloom or two open in a few more days.
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Not the best images, but until I can take the plant outside, this will have to do!
ZOMBIE Love the glitter!
Next to bloom could be RILONA or EVERGREEN.
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I made a Blog for my Hippies, see it here - Becca's Hippeastrums - I up-date it when new blubs come into bloom and I get a good shot of them. Please post comments to the Blog on the Blog.
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What do you recommend as a potting mix? Mine all need repotting and I just got a new one at the grocery store today, marked down after Christmas. The bulb is very small, but so is the flower (very white with a green throat). I don't think I have seen one like it, and hope the plant grows well and the blossom stays the same.
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Elaine,
I would use a quality potting mix that does NOT contain moisture beads, to it add perlite and sharp sand (parakeet gravel if you only have a single bulb). The media nee thave realy good drainage yet be able to retain sufficient moisture for the roots. Also after the bulb has grown some foliage and is on it's way to becoming a healthy plant you should pot it on to a bigger pot, deeper is better than wider. And when you do pot the bulb set it low in the pot, with only the top 1/3 of the bulb above the soil line. If the bulb has a somewhat long neck, you can pot it deeper, the idea is that the neck and part of the shoulder of the bulb is above the soil line.
Hope this helps.
Oh and soak the roots in warm water for 24 hours before potting,
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